Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town Kara is a forensic anthropologist and archaeologist, who completed their BA Honours specialization in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario and their MSc in forensic anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. With a PhD from the University of Cape Town, she conducted research on the impact of clothing on decomposition in forensic contexts. As a post-doctoral researcher, she is working to establish standardised procedures for biological sampling for DNA. She has diverse fieldwork experience, including work in Germany, Canada, Cape Town, and Cyprus.
Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of East Anglia Kirsten McConnachie is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of East Anglia and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Social Science. She is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre, a Senior Research Associate of the University of London's Refugee Law Initiative, and a trustee of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association. Kirsten's primary area of research is refugee law from a socio-legal and interdisciplinary perspective. She has published in areas including governance by armed groups; the history and management of refugee camps; legal pluralism and non-state justice systems; legal anthropology and informal governance; forced migration in southeast Asia; the role of victims in transitional justice; and constitutional reform. Kirsten's research has been funded by major funders including the Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, John Fell Fund, Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Emslie Horniman Trust. In addition to work in refugee and forced migration studies, she is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded socio-legal study of community land ownership in Scotland.
Associate Research Professor of Food Science, Penn State My program provides technical support to the dairy industry and delivers outreach programs focused on improving the safety and quality of dairy products. I direct and lecture in our annual short courses on dairy preventive controls and food safety, dairy basics for small-scale dairy processors, cheese making, pasteurizer operations, and cultured products, and assist with the ice cream short courses. I also provide customized training to domestic and international audiences. My research is focused on creating tools for small-scale cheesemakers to improve the safety and quality of their cheese and meet food safety regulations. The tools include guidelines and spreadsheets and worksheet templates that processors can customize to meet their needs. Another area of my extension program is working with Value-Added Dairy Foods Working Group to create resources and assist small and medium-scale processors and entrepreneurs with value-added dairy foods processing and food safety. I have a strong interest in the sensory evaluation of dairy products and judge cheese and dairy products at several national competitions, coach the Penn State Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Team, and Chair the Pennsylvania Farm Show Cheese Competition. I support the industry as a faculty advisor for the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Food and Environmental Sanitarians (PAMFES) and the Pennsylvania Cheese Guild, and am on the Board of Directors for the American Cheese Society and the Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Contest.
Professor of Social and Health Psychology, Massey University Kerry Chamberlain is a social researcher with interests in health and illness, food and health, medications, and qualitative research methodology and arts-based research.
Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media, Monash University Dr Kate Fitch is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Her research foregrounds critical and sociocultural understandings of public relations, drawing on historical, feminist and social justice perspectives. Her first monograph, Professionalizing Public Relations: History, Gender and Education (Fitch, 2016, Palgrave) remains the only book-length, historical investigation of the development of the industry in Australia. Her second book, Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations (Fitch & Motion, 2021, Routledge) offers a critical account of the broader societal impact of public relations. Dr Fitch co-edits Public Relations Inquiry.
